#also bitey eddie is one of my fav things lmao

[thefreakandthehair]

I’ve seen a lot about Eddie finding rocks and stuff and giving them to Steve just because he thought it was cool and trinkets is a love language but think about Steve not really getting it but wanting to show Eddie he cares too

(He’s an acts of service person but dammit he’ll do his best)

So then he starts looking for rocks and leaves and before he knows it he just sees Eddie everywhere, sees the little wonderful and weird things that make him think of him because Eddie is a magpie and Steve loves him

Eddie keeps every flower, every little gift, because even if Steve doesn’t get it, he GETS it, you know? And Eddie’s not really used to people not only accepting his odd tendencies but trying to reciprocate in his way (Gareth is used to Eddie sometimes feeling bitey, he is aware it can happen at any time, but he doesn’t bite Eddie back. Steve however, after being exposed to said biting, will, on occasion, be persuaded to bite him back if he pokes his cheek enough) but his jar of essentially gravel and bits of metal and sticks and bottle caps is one of his most precious possessions because all of it reminded Steve of him and that means the world to him

(Later, when they’re older, the jar is bigger and is filled with rocks from all the places they’ve traveled together. They each have a jar, really, and no one else fully gets it, but that’s okay, they know and that’s all they need)

crow-tendency Eddie being on the receiving end of learning-to-crow Steve would level him in the best possible way, maybe as much as it has me?! omg the first time Steve brings him a rock that reminded him of Eddie? and Eddie just stares at it, looking back and forth between the little stone Steve plops in his palm and Steve’s face? his brain is buffering! I’m—